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A Preoperative Contingency Management Intervention for Smoking Abstinence in Cancer Patients: A Preliminary Randomized Controlled Trial.
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research . Jun2021, Vol. 23 Issue 6, p1064-1067. 4p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- <bold>Introduction: </bold>The purpose of this study was to evaluate a pilot preoperative contingency management (CM) intervention for smoking abstinence.<bold>Aims and Methods: </bold>This multisite pilot study was conducted at two cancer center-based tobacco treatment programs. Participants who were smoking, diagnosed with or suspected to have any type of operable cancer, and had a surgical procedure scheduled in the next 10 days to 5 weeks (N = 40) were randomized to receive standard care plus monitoring only (MO) or CM prior to surgery. All patients received breath carbon monoxide (CO) tests 3 times per week, nicotine patches, and counseling. The CM group also earned payments for self-reported smoking abstinence confirmed by CO breath test ≤6 ppm on an escalating schedule of reinforcement (with a reset if they smoked). Seven-day point prevalence abstinence rates on the day of surgery and at 3-month follow-up were compared between groups using repeated measures log-linear regression models utilizing generalized estimating equations. Participants lost to follow-up are assumed to have returned to smoking.<bold>Results: </bold>The sample was 50% female and 75% White. In covariate adjusted models, patients in the CM group had a greater probability of reported abstinence. On the day of surgery (end of treatment), 52% of CM patients were abstinent compared with 16% of patients in MO (risk ratio = 3.2 [1.1-9.3]; p = .03). At the 3-month follow-up, 43% of CM patients were abstinent compared with 5% in MO (risk ratio = 8.4 [1.5-48.3]; p = .02).<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Providing monetary incentives contingent on abstinence prior to cancer surgery may produce significant improvements in smoking abstinence rates relative to breath CO MO.<bold>Implications: </bold>In this pilot preoperative CM intervention for smoking abstinence, patients receiving a CM intervention prior to cancer surgery had a greater probability of smoking abstinence at the end of treatment compared with a breath MO group (52% vs. 16%, respectively). Thus, providing monetary incentives contingent on abstinence may produce significant improvements in smoking abstinence rates prior to cancer surgery relative to breath CO monitoring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14622203
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Nicotine & Tobacco Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 150595195
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntaa266